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Homeworld Universe Map

I don't think many of you are familiar at all with Relic Entertainment's Homeworld, but suffice to say they didn't provide a very clear and concise map of their universe. So I decided to make one.

This originally started out as a map for a modification of "Homeworld 2", but differences with the creative team there forced me away. I returned to the map and made it into what you see here.

It was constructed by what I could find from concept art and maps that were given in two of the three games (the third is questionable in regard to canonical). Suffice to say, even THIS map is inaccurate, and I have another version on hold that draws from even more sources I and others have managed to extract from the game.

Even Relic has commented on it, wondering if a final version was ever going to be completed.

If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)